A insurgência individual contra o direito na filosofia de Max Stirner

Abstract

The work aimed to develop a critique of law from Max Stirner, starting from the understanding and use of its main concepts. In order to make the study effective, we studied the historical and political influences of Stirnerian thought, as well as its role in the development of anarchism, identifying, respectively: Its insertion within the "Hegelian left", its involvement with the beginning of anarchism, its role in individualistic anarchism and its use in post-anarchism. Moreover, we identify in his writings the elaboration of an individual, libertarian and flexible insurgency against the legal system, which part of the refusal of the individual who wishes to assume his autonomy, the "Egoist" and, from this, is associated with others in order to ensure their own interests - Stirner calls this a "Union" or "Association" of Egoists. We identify the centrality of "power" in his work: The author overcomes the critique of authority and assumes a critique of the "power" itself. By using it in the world, which consists in appropriating oneself, the individual seeks and makes effective his own autonomy, a perpetual and endless process. From this comes a continuous reflection on desire: the autonomous individual is the one who becomes "master of himself", who understands and dominates his desires, seeking them in a libertarian way in opposition to the world and essences, which he calls "fixed ideas", "ghosts", "specters". He does not seek the creation of his own laws or morals, but rather a self-assertion of the "I" by appropriating and consuming these different structures that arise in reality. In this way, we identify here a non-traditional, micropolitical anarchism with no intention of revolution: but one of revolt, of insurgency, of creative destruction of what is put into the world.